Tomaž Šalamun lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia and occasionally teaches in the USA. His recent books translated into English areWoods and Chalices(Harcourt 2008),Poker(Ugly Duckling Presse, second edition 2008) andThere's the Hand and There's the Arid Chair(Counterpath Press, 2009). His Blue Tower is due by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2010. He received Europäische Preis in Münster, Germany in 2007 and a Golden Wreath from Struga Poetry Evenings in Macedonia in 2009.


The Day
by Tomaž Šalamun


The day
grows deeper.
The earth

rises
with a quiet crash
like a net.

The body is
a signal, windows
get along well

with the door.
Long is the corridor
of glittering

light.
What else do we need
to arrive at the field?



*Translated from the Slovenian by Ana Jelnikar and Peter Richards



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Hinchas de Poesia, Winter, 2010
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